Flashbacks and intrusive memories are share of dealing with trauma. More of us in the emergency services should be comfortable talking about mental healthThis will be my 17th year in the fire and rescue service. In the course of my duties I bear responded to a range of incidents including accidents on motorways,train and aircraft crashes, and the fatal fire at Atherstone-on-Stour in 2007, and where four of my fellow firefighters lost their lives.
We worked for days to recover the bodies of our fallen colleagues from an unsafe structure,still in the process of collapse. Much could be written about the mental impact of this one incident alone.
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Source: theguardian.com